From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:32:23 +0000 Subject: Re: not all volume types export UUIDs (was: /dev/disk/by-id Message-Id: <1215261143.23585.3.camel@linux.site> List-Id: References: <20080702102820.GB16076@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net> In-Reply-To: <20080702102820.GB16076@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 13:55 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Kay Sievers [2008.07.03.1736 +0200]: > > Sure, symlinks based on filesystem metadata are the way to go here. > > Usually the fs UUID is used in fstab and such, and works pretty well. > > Iff there is a UUID for the contents of the partition. Sure, that's obvoius. I kind of miss the point of this conversation now. Blindly removing the prefixes for id's which are not unique otherwise, and usually not even the same across buses for the same device, seems not a reasonable solution to me. Care to explain your ideas again, and give examples for real hardware you have, and base it on the answers/question in this thread? Thanks, Kay